Hayden Panettiere facts

She has a mis-spelled tattoo on her side, which is meant to say 'live without regrets.'

Her surname means ‘baker’ in Italian.

She’s a vegan. So no, she would not like to taste your sausage.

She's been dating Ukranian boxer Wladimir Klitschko. No contest.

Why we love Hayden Panettiere

“In an age of conflict… in a world of uncertainty… a hero will arise.” TV trailers told us this, but they didn’t say she’d be a button-cute New Yorker dressed as a cheerleader. But she was, and boy did we watch her! Heroes was brilliant, until it climbed up its own bottom in later series, and the undoubted high-light was Hayden Panettiere.

Heroes might have bought Hayden Panettiere to a wider audience – But the truth is, she’d been acting for years before she’d donned that outfit. She’s starred alongside ultimate fantasy dad Denzel Washington in Remember the Titans, as well as Harrison Ford…’s wife in Ally McBea.

Since Heroes, Hayden Panettiere has also voiced Dot in Pixar animation A Bug's Life, a character in Playsation 2 game Kingdom of Hearts, as well as being an active member of PETA. She has struck out in the fight to protect all manner of aquatic mammals, and even got in trouble with John Law for her part. She also cried, because her heart is so big.

More recently, Hayden Panettiere has been seen in slasher-fourquel Scream 4, and she’s set to appear in Downer’s Grove, which is written by Bret ‘American Psycho’ Easton Ellis, and is about a curse at a high-school that kills one student a year. One isn’t too bad, depending on the size of your school. If it’s massive, you might as well role the dice, especially if they have good facilities. If, however, it’s one of those little country schools with four people in the class, it’s probably worth shopping around.